Recent content by CJK Ross

Time How did this happen? What dark magic has transformed me? Time. The passage of time has done this to me. And in considering this strange state of affairs what I feel – surprisingly – is gratitude. Not for the decrepitude of my hands, which ache in writing these lines. But a deep and abiding...

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! Pepper - yes - it definitely helps to have companions on this journey. I tend to have trouble sleeping (nothing new, a lifelong condition) and one sleepless night a few years ago, I was writing in a journal and suddenly became aware of my mother's aged...

What are these hands I see? With their swollen joints and protruding purple veins, their boney backs wrapped in crepe paper skin. They conjure a distant memory of my mother’s aged hands. But this is now. These hands are mine. This is the new me. Today, I face this reality head-on and own it: I...